Charles Louis Seeger

1886 - 1979  (92 years)

• Name	Charles Louis Seeger  [1]
  Alternate birth	8 Dec 1886	Mexico City, Mexico   [2]
  Birth	14 Dec 1886	Mexico City, Mexico   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	15 Dec 1886	Mexico City, Mexico   [4]
  Death	7 Feb 1979	Bridgewater, Litchfield, Connecticut   [3]
  Person ID	I41374	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	27 Sep 2025

  
  

  Father	Charles Louis Seeger,   b. 13 Jan 1860, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts d. 6 Nov 1943, New York, New York (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Elsie Simmons Adams,   b. 5 Jul 1861, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
  Marriage	3 Mar 1886	Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts   [2]
  Family ID	F25536	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Constance de Clyver Edson,   b. 28 Nov 1886, Denver, Denver, Colorado d. 9 Oct 1975, Florida (Age 88 years)
  Marriage	22 Dec 1911	New York, New York   [4]
  Divorce	1927  [3]
  Children	> 1. Peter Seeger,   b. 3 May 1919, New York, New York d. 27 Jan 2014, New York, New York (Age 94 years)
  Family ID	F25539	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Sep 2025

  
  

  Family 2	Ruth Porter Crawford,   b. 3 Jul 1901, East Liverpool, Columbiana, Ohio d. 18 Nov 1953, Chevy Chase, Montgomery, Ohio (Age 52 years)
  Marriage	1932  [3]
  Children	1. Mike Seeger,   b. 15 Aug 1933, New York, New York d. 7 Aug 2009, Lexington, Rockbridge, Virginia (Age 75 years) > 2. Margaret "Peggy" Seeger,   b. 17 Jun 1935, New York, New York (Age 90 years)
  Family ID	F25538	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Sep 2025

  
  

• Notes

  From Wikipedia, accessed 27 Sep 2025: "Charles Louis Seeger Jr. […] was an American musicologist, composer, teacher, and folklorist. He was the husband of the composer Ruth Crawford Seeger, father of the American folk singers Pete Seeger (1919–2014), Peggy Seeger (b. 1935), and Mike Seeger (1933–2009); and brother of the World War I poet Alan Seeger (1888–1916) and children's author and educator Elizabeth Seeger (1889-1973)."

  
  

• Sources

  [S5287] The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower by Gary Boyd Roberts. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2020. [S8683] Genealogy of the Stimpson Family of Charlestown, Mass., and Allied Lines by Charles Collyer Whittier. Boston: Press of David Clapp & Son, 1907. [S160] Wikipedia. [S8684] Edson Family History and Genealogy by Carroll Andrew Edson. 2 volumes. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1969.